Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

F or centuries, dating back to long before the invention of the telescope, people have reported odd flashes that sometimes ...

An ancient myth about moonlight and madness might trace back to something far more ordinary: our restless, moonlit sleep.

Paper airplanes flew, scientists sang about stomach bugs and one person dressed as a giant ball of mozzarella: Last Thursday, the 35th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony honored strange scientific pursuits with ...

Physicists have uncovered the fascinating world of “rotating crystals” — solids made of spinning particles that behave in ...

For centuries, astronomers have observed Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLPs) – strange lights on the Moon. These enigmatic ...

Two dinosaur mummies have been discovered, but the way they have been preserved has fascinated researchers. When we think of mummies, our minds tend to refer to the wrapped mummies of ancient Egypt, ...

In a laboratory at Oxford University, scientists have achieved something that once seemed science fiction: they made two ...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Shimon Sakaguchi from Osaka University in Japan, Mary E. Brunkow from the Institute for System Biology and Fred Ramsdell from Sonoma ...

In a remarkable leap for quantum physics, researchers in Japan have uncovered how weak magnetic fields can reverse tiny electrical currents in kagome metals—quantum materials with a woven atomic ...

In a 1972 experiment, patient B-19 was given access to a brain stimulation device and a button to activate it. What took ...

"When I come on as a science advisor to any show or film, my first task is to figure out where on the spectrum of science to fiction the science fiction wants to land," MacDonald told Nerdist. "I'm ...